Mongolia orders border congestion cleared to speed coking coal exports to China

Mongolia's cabinet on October 8 ordered local officials to ease traffic congestion at six junctions around the Sino-Mongolian border crossing of Gashuunsukhait and lift the flow of export transport, according to a report by Mongolian news outlet Montsame. The traffic snarl is viewed in Ulaanbaatar as the main bottleneck for Mongolian coking coal entering China.

Gashuunsukhait sits in the South Gobi region and faces Ganqimaodu in China's Inner Mongolia region. It is the busiest road port on the China-Mongolia border and the main outlet for Mongolian coking coal flowing to Mongolia's southern neighbor. The order came at a meeting where First Deputy Prime Minister and